--On Thursday, August 03, 2006 6:43 AM +0100 Graham Murray
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
ADSL is both always on and a 'fixed' (ie your phone line is physically
connected to a DSLAM port) so the ISPs must have sufficient IP addresses
for all their ADSL customers.
Not necessarily. A lot of providers have gone to PPPoE, where one goes
through an authentication process before being assigned an address. I'm
guessing this is intended to allow metering of the connection, not to make
more addresses available.
